For those who like chess analogies , I made the point that the next stage of COVID-19 response is the middle game, not the endgame (which will start only when we have an effective vaccine). BTW, recommend Garry Kasparov ‘How Life Imitates Chess’! PHAA is on Bluesky Croakey News

Today is the 19th day since Australia's 5000 pokies venues were shut. Given we lose $38m a day on the pokies, that's a community stimulus worth $722m so far. Retweet this if you reckon suburban pokies rooms should be the very last thing that resumes as the clamps come off.

Self-centredness creates a distance from others, leading to dishonesty, fear and anger. This is how disturbing emotions work. While fear, hatred and anger, are bad for our health, concern for others leads to self-confidence and inner strength, while helping to reduce anger.

In 1945, Britain was battered, broke & in debt. But we made a more equal and kinder society. We set up the NHS, better schools and pensions, better unemployment & sickness benefits. We built 800,000 council houses. What will we do now to make Britain a better place for all of us?

Senior Lecturer dog from invented Perth research institute publishes side-splitting parody in junk journal arguing traffic police could assist public health by performing digital rectal exams for prostate cancer. Important to expose predatory journals.insightplus.mja.com.au/2020/25/dogged…

The Journal Citation Report was released overnight & we're pleased to let our readers know that HPJA’s Impact Factor for 2019 is 1.476, which is a continued increase on last year’s figure of 1.333! Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) @Wiley_Health James A Smith Jenni Judd A/Prof Kalinda Griffiths - PhD (Epi), MPH, BBMSc Justine Leavy Dr Gemma Crawford

I call this 'Cottesloe Gangsta'....

I just published "Measuring health promotion research impact - What researchers think?" in "Health Promotion Journal of Australia". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hp…

Influences to HPV completion via a school-based immunisation program tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We would love to have you on the Curtin University #healthpromotion and #publichealth teaching team! Dr Krysten Blackford Justine Leavy Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) PHAA WA Branch (moving to PHAA-WA.bsky.social) Melissa Stoneham @Melinda_Edmunds Prof Christina Pollard

"To have the support and faith of so many Western Australians, in one of the most important state elections, is a great honour," Mark McGowan claims victory in the WA election in a landslide result for the Labor party. #WAVotes #9News

Premier Mark McGowan has declared victory in Western Australia and thanked his opponent Zak Kirkup for his contribution to the WA Parliament. “To have the support and faith of so many Western Australians in one of the most important elections is a great honour,” he said. #wavotes

Great to have this paper published. Prof Jane Scott Sharyn Burns Annegret Martin Suzanne Robinson

“The assessment tail is wagging the curriculum dog,” said Professor Helen Cahill, arguing that making time in the timetable, particularly in years 11 & 12, is key to ensuring we improve #consent education in schools. #SexEd #education

“I was able to actually do something useful” This paper by Dr Gemma Crawford, Sharyn Burns & Gina Rodgers describes a study measuring the long-term benefits of Mental Health First Aid among students in a large WA university #MentalHealth buff.ly/36OCYYX

Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving smh.com.au/education/aust…

New book chapter published in the IUHPE International Handbook of Learning and Teaching in Health Promotion: "The Health Promotion Curriculum: Evolving and Embedding Competencies in Contemporary Courses" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

This study by Sharyn Burns, Jacqui Hendriks, Hanna Saltis + colleagues explored school teachers’ beliefs and comfort around socialising with same-sex attracted and trans and gender diverse people, beliefs about inclusive school-based policy, and more: buff.ly/3RafOPn

PhD scholarship available Curtin University! Opportunity to work with Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) & other key stakeholders to develop, implement & evaluate an ethics framework for health promotion practitioners & organisations in Australia. scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?i… Collab for Evidence, Research & Impact in Pub Hlth Sharyn Burns Dr Gemma Crawford

Researchers at Curtin Uni are evaluating the impact of the No Jab No Play legislation in WA. You can participate by completing a 10-minute survey. Please refer to the flyer for more info and instructions. Your help with this study is very much appreciated. Thank you!